There was a notable level of insider selling revealed today in filings with the SEC for Marsh & McLennan Companies. Five insiders — Beshar, Glaser, Portalatin, McDonald, and Mills — disposed of 84,127 shares in the company for approximately $6,887,525. These are the first insider buy/sell trades in the past 90 days. Adding the most recent activity to this 90-day history indicates insider trades have averaged 16,825 shares per transaction.

Relative to its peers over the last 90 days, insider buy/sell trading at Marsh & McLennan Companies is higher than the 22-company peer group average. Multiline Insurance & Brokers peer group saw 6 buy/sell trades during this period for an average of 0.3 transactions per company. The number of shares per buy/sell trade for Marsh & McLennan Companies insiders was also higher. Within the peer group there were 0 shares purchased and 20,088 shares sold with company insiders having sold 3,348 shares on average.

The data obtained in composing and writing in this story eliminates all trading activity reported to the SEC that involves awards, options, exercise of derivative securities, company buy-backs, taxes, gifts, shares acquired via inheritance and tenders or exchange offers.